Thinking with metaphors in medicine : the state of the art / Alan Bleakley.

While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine - that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education - outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this i...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Bleakley, Alan (Alan Douglas) (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Series:	Routledge advances in the medical humanities.
Subjects:	Physician and patient. Metaphor > Health aspects. Medical education. Metaphor. Language and languages. Interprofessional relations. Metaphor Language and languages Interprofessional relations Medical education Physician and patient